> Remove GPS and people will have to figure out how to read maps again.

It's not GPS, but turn-by-turn navigation. Remove that and people's spatial understanding of their environment improves significantly, and this improvement persists even long after the experiment, and they'll even be able to use turn-by-turn navigation better.

Which aligns with Anthropic's reports that people are able to use Claude better if they understand their own codebase better, and that increased Claude usage leads to reduced understanding of the codebase.

When society replaced walking as the primary mode of transportation with driving, people started going to the gym to keep their body in shape.

We should probably be training spatial perception (replaced by GPS), understanding of algorithms and data structures (replaced by coding agents), too.